Dear Editor,
When I first caught sight of the launch of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, after a few moments of ‘surely that isn’t what I think it is?’, I realised it actually was what I thought it was (named after Tim Keller), and I felt deeply uneasy.
The fact that there are some great guys involved with this initiative, including one or two that I consider personal friends, and that the whole thing is no doubt well-intentioned and will probably produce some fantastic stuff, hasn’t dispelled this sense of dis-ease.
There’s an obvious danger with naming a ministry after an individual. Perhaps this is just me, but I come away from the launch page thinking more about Keller than about Jesus. There’s just a bit of the whiff of the cult of personality here.
But my main concern is actually to do with Keller’s very approach to cultural apologetics: if it ever was fit for purpose, it certainly isn’t today: it’s not what we need for the days in which we’re living...
Yours sincerely,
Dave Brennan Director of Brephos – helping churches respond to abortion.
(See his blog critiquing Keller’s cultural apologetics in greater depth here: www.brephos.org/post/the-keller-center-why-i-m-really-concerned )
